Calendar of Forthcoming Training Events

This calendar lists all known forthcoming training events in the audiovisual archiving field, all around the world. The information it contains is taken from the CCAAA website. Should you want to add a training event to the calendar, please visit this page.

Calendar of Forthcoming Training Events

This calendar lists all known forthcoming training events in the audiovisual archiving field, all around the world. The information it contains is taken from the CCAAA website. Should you want to add a training event to the calendar, please visit this page.

Date

Event

Location

07-14 October 2017

2017 Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop India

Following the success of the Film Restoration and Preservation School in Mumbai in February 2015, the Film Heritage Foundation and FIAF decided to join forces with the National Film Archive of India

FPRWI 2017 is a seven-day training programme which will take place in Chennai from 7 to 14 October 2017. The third of its kind, it is an initiative of Film Heritage Foundation and FIAF, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, L’Immagine Ritrovata, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Prasad Corp., La Cinémathèque française, Imperial War Museums, Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Kodak.

The intensive workshop that will take place at the historic Prasad Film Laboratories in Chennai will cover both theory and practical classes in the best practices of the preservation and restoration of both filmic and non-filmic material and daily screenings of restored classics from around the world. For the first time, the course will also include practical sessions on film scanning. The course will be certified by FIAF.

The goal of the programme is to take our campaign to save India’s cinematic heritage to the South Indian film industry that has an incredible film history besides contributing to over 60% of India’s film production output currently.

Application Opens on 15 July 2017. The course will be open to applicants from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. Course fee: INR 25,000/- plus applicable taxes. Scholarships available for deserving candidates.

Course details:

Theory Classes

History of film technology Film and audiovisual object conservation Archive strategies, access and presentation Photograph and paper conservation Digital technology, scanning and digitization Television and video preservation Documentation and cataloguing Restoration ethics and workflow Film comparison and selection Sound technology and capture Digital infrastructure, mastering and workflow

Practical Classes

Film identification Film handling, repair and preparation Film in serious condition Photograph conservation Paper conservation Film scanning Sound restoration Digital restoration Colour correction Visit to the last surviving black and white film processing lab in India – AVM Cine Lab

• A training course on audiovisual archives management, organized by Ina and Sound and vision, in the framework of the Creative Europe program, in partnership with FIATIFTA and Eurovision. • An itinerant approach aiming, every year, at opening to participants the doors of different European institutions dealing with audiovisual heritage preservation and promotion. • Two sessions of one week each, addressing different issues.

09 November 2017

An Introduction to Moving Image Metadata

Learn the requirements of descriptive metadata and how it is used with audiovisual assets in the UK

You’ll be introduced to different schemas for moving image metadata and descriptive metadata, and learn to map metadata across different systems with practical exercises. We’ll highlight the value of ontology, and focus on ‘metadata in practice’, looking at pragmatic approaches to metadata and management systems.

Target audience:

Film and TV archivists and senior archivistsArchivists and cataloguers in production companiesUniversity librarians, learning resources officers and IT managers responsible for moving image content

23 June - 14 July 2018

2018 Film Restoration / FIAF Summer School

Since 2007, the Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with FIAF and the ACE, has been promoting and hosting the FIAF Film Restoration Summer School in its highly specialized state-of-the-art laboratory, L’Immagine Ritrovata.

The aim of this School is to foster a shared knowledge in the field for current and future generations and film archives worldwide. Selected participants will experience hands-on the work of actual restoration professionals. They will also meet restoration experts from all over the world, as well as L'Immagine Ritrovata and Cineteca di Bologna staff.

The FIAF Film Restoration Summer School is aimed at specialists, film archive staff and students. During the participant selection process, priority will be given to those working in FIAF and ACE member institutions.

More information on the 2018 School available soon.

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